The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1890 - 416 Seiten |
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... seen a pole - cat run across his garden . He records the circumstance of boys playing at taw on the Plestor ; and that he had set Gunnery , one of his bantam hens , on nine of her own eggs . plains that dogs come into his garden at ...
... seen a pole - cat run across his garden . He records the circumstance of boys playing at taw on the Plestor ; and that he had set Gunnery , one of his bantam hens , on nine of her own eggs . plains that dogs come into his garden at ...
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... seen as it bursts suddenly into view , and affords a prospect of great rural beauty . A foot - bridge is thrown . across a deep ravine of rocky bank , at the bottom of which a little streamlet runs over a road , which is at once its ...
... seen as it bursts suddenly into view , and affords a prospect of great rural beauty . A foot - bridge is thrown . across a deep ravine of rocky bank , at the bottom of which a little streamlet runs over a road , which is at once its ...
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... seen several centuries , and is probably coeval with the church , and therefore may be deemed an antiquity . The body is short , squat , and thick , and measures twenty - three feet in the girth , supporting a head of suitable extent to ...
... seen several centuries , and is probably coeval with the church , and therefore may be deemed an antiquity . The body is short , squat , and thick , and measures twenty - three feet in the girth , supporting a head of suitable extent to ...
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... seen cottages on the verge of this wild district , whose timbers consisted of a black hard wood , looking like oak , which the owners assured me they procured from the bogs by probing the soil with spits , or some such instruments ; but ...
... seen cottages on the verge of this wild district , whose timbers consisted of a black hard wood , looking like oak , which the owners assured me they procured from the bogs by probing the soil with spits , or some such instruments ; but ...
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... seen but smother and desolation , the whole circuit round looking like the cinders of a volcano ; and , the soil being quite exhausted , no traces of vegetation are to be found for years . These conflagrations , as they take place ...
... seen but smother and desolation , the whole circuit round looking like the cinders of a volcano ; and , the soil being quite exhausted , no traces of vegetation are to be found for years . These conflagrations , as they take place ...
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